Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This methodological study investigates the relative strengths and weaknesses of panel and cross-sectional approaches to the measurement of attitude data , using as a vehicle the British Social Attitudes Survey . |
| 2 | Having dealt with the general principles of the UCTA it is now possible to analyse its effect in detail on various contractual relationships using as a framework the definitions and different combinations of the factors set out above in the section devoted to the basic rationale of the UCTA . |
| 3 | Work out how you would do the entry procession using as a guide the accompanying paper . |
| 4 | Producers were so busy fighting their own corner , and so mesmerized by the success of Hollywood , that they did n't have the strength to argue that keeping the industry fragmented and flexible , learning from Hollywood 's example without simply imitating its outward forms , might be a better way of catering for a market the size of Britain than heading up the road of monopoly . |
| 5 | Adopting as a precedent the order made by this Board in Baksh v. The Queen [ 1958 ] A.C. 167 , 172 , their Lordships consider that this is a case in which the right course is to rely for that purpose on the judicial discretion and experience of the court in Jamaica . |
| 6 | Moreover , in acting as a teacher the librarian was offering structured and directed courses with declared objectives , and frequently with examined results . |
| 7 | Well a way back in the last century they they had to go looking for a life a living elsewhere because of the poverty of the place . |
| 8 | Erm that in fact one of the odd points here is that when a person is convicted , that information is public , but nevertheless as the years go by and indeed er this has been recognized in for instance the rehabilitation of offenders act , it becomes private information and if someone 's looking for a job the fact that he was convicted of an offence many years ago should not be er er relevant . |
| 9 | It 's not a case of believing for a miracle every day , but it 's a case of having faith and trust in the Christ of the miracle . |
| 10 | Sixty-Nine Ninety-five with Range of Attachments for Round-the-House Cleanliness , ’ he added , remembering with a sigh the familiar signs . |
| 11 | The outcome may thus be seen as a situation in which there is considerable trade-union militancy with respect to wages , hours of work and related issues , but relatively little expression of class consciousness in the broader sense of any profound awareness or conviction of living in a society the nature of which is predominantly determined by class relations , and of being engaged in a continuing struggle to establish an alternative form of society . |
| 12 | The House of Lords held that the minister could only intervene if there were reasonable grounds , namely that the education authority was acting in a way no other education authority would act . |
| 13 | Peat-based products that are not from SSSIs will continue to be stocked , but according to a spokeswoman the move is a part of an overall shift away from peat to substitutes . |
| 14 | According to a report the next day on Soviet television a powerful home-made bomb had been placed in a carriage of the train , which was travelling from Georgia to Moscow . |
| 15 | She was picking at a leaf-taking the green out to leave a filigree of veins . |
| 16 | I went looking at a house the other day and it backed on to a lake . |
| 17 | ( He quotes this figure as " empirically estimated " , citing as a reference a paper presented at a conference by one R. Milner . |
| 18 | In 1887 Lyons ran a stall at the Liverpool exhibition , selling for a shilling a combined microscope-binocular-compass which he had invented . |
| 19 | As she stood waiting for a taxi a speeding car appeared out of the freezing fog . |
| 20 | His embarrassment flattered her , because it was a sign of his bewildered love , but it irritated her even more , because it testified to his immaturity ; going with a boy the same age seemed like lowering oneself : she was only interested in older boys . |
| 21 | Another suggestion was that the electrolysis caused the liquid level to drop as more of the liquid turned into gas ; this exposed the top of the palladium above the liquid surface and gas began to leak out , releasing in a rush the considerable energy that had been stored with the trapped deuterium , sending the temperature up above the melting point ( 1554 degrees Celsius ) or even boiling at 3000 degrees . |
| 22 | Then , on Sunday evening , the pilot 's employers telephoned to say their pilot had fully recovered and was going on a course the next day in London . |
| 23 | As I stepped past them Iain had his glasses on and was peering at a diagram the engineer had roughed out in his notepad . |
| 24 | He shrugged , the jerky movement betraying for a moment the emotion he had banished from his voice . |
| 25 | She had laughed , looked at him with some of her usual mischief on her face , erasing for a moment the memory of what had so recently passed . |
| 26 | We have suggested techniques for creating continuity through the different sections of your essay , by linking together and signposting for a reader the various points you make . |
| 27 | He was probably going to start bleeding like a pig the instant the barb was out , and he only hoped — |
| 28 | When scumbling on a canvas the surface is lightly agitated , so that the light which falls upon it is scattered . |
| 29 | Moreover , the mosaic from London also depicts Bacchus , riding on a leopard a scene . |
| 30 | One was a 70-year-old Watcher who threatened to do us grievous bodily harm and then hand herself in thus doubling at a stroke the NW clear up rate . |